Indentured servants

In any discussion of slavery, it would be a good idea to include the institution of indentured service. An indenture is essentially a limited term of slavery which is entered into voluntarily and b...

The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive By Richard Hildreth, 1807-1865

History of Slavery

A short essay concerning the arrival of the first Africans at Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 and the subsequent legislation which made slavery an institution in the colony.

(AM) John Casor had to work from sun up to sun down. Along with other indentured servants, John worked the fields twice as hard than any other slaved owned by Anthony Johnson. John along with others had no type of protection from the sun and some even died of dehydration. If anthony felt that Casor wasn't working hard enough he would get cruel punishment.

British Guiana Indentured Servants bound for Guyana by Gaiutra Bahadur (fr Andrew Jeffrey's photos)

The project began in January 2020, intending to determine the number of colonial indentured servants in the British colonies of America. Over the past three years, we have uncovered thousands of na…

I just discovered that one of my ancestors was an indentured servant from England. I had to find out what an indentured servant really was.

American history has remembered the Atlantic slave trade as a black struggle, the problem is that our nation has forgotten the long history of white slavery in early America.